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Constitution Hill scratched from Ascot Gold Cup

Many of the owners and trainers present this week volition beryllium hoping their horses tally good capable to see sending them to Royal Ascot, but 1 equine that volition decidedly not beryllium heading to Berkshire adjacent period is Constitution Hill, the 2023 Champion Hurdle winner, who has been scratched from the Gold Cup, the Royal meeting’s diagnostic event, connected 19 June.

Constitution Hill famously went unbeaten successful his archetypal 10 starts and is seen arsenic 1 of the finest hurdlers of each time, but his vocation implicit jumps has unravelled since mid-March, with 2 falls, astatine Cheltenham and Aintree, and past a lacklustre display astatine Punchestown earlier this month.

His introduction for the Gold Cup was somewhat unexpected to statesman with, and the eight-year-old volition present beryllium turned retired for the summertime up of an expected instrumentality to enactment implicit hurdles successful the autumn.

Preamble

Good day from the Knavesmire, wherever aft 2 days with Epsom Classic trials astatine the apical of the bill, attraction turns to the stayers and the intriguing imaginable of Rebel’s Romance – arguably the astir under-appreciated equine successful training, among British racing fans astatine slightest – stepping up beyond a mile-and-a-half for the archetypal time.

Charlie Appleby’s seven-year-old is 1 of the biggest money-earners successful planetary racing history, and already a subordinate of the elite nine of horses with net of more than £10m. His 16 wins from 24 starts see 2 victories successful the Breeders’ Cup Turf, He has notched 2 wins successful the Breeders’ Cup Turf, a triumph successful the Sheema Classic astatine Meydan – the world’s joint-richest contention connected turf – and seven Group One oregon Grade One successes successful all.

All seven, though, were recorded astatine a assortment of high-profile tracks and meetings astir the world, and his lone Group-race triumph successful Britain was a Group Three astatine Goodwood successful July 2022. That could good alteration this afternoon, arsenic helium is the apt favourite for the Group Two Yorkshire Cup contempt the question people implicit the trip, and a triumph astatine 14 furlongs would unfastened up a scope of caller options for Appleby’s evergreen seven-year-old.

Today’s diagnostic should beryllium a decent test, contempt the tiny field, arsenic each 5 runners are presently priced up astatine single-figure odds. Continuous, the 2023 St Leger winner; Epic Poet, third successful a Grade One successful Dubai past time; and Sweet William, runner-up down the high-class Kyprios successful past season’s Goodwood Cup each person the signifier to win, adjacent if Rebel’s Romance’s stamina holds up.

The going connected the Knavesmire remains good to firm, bully successful places, and the enactment is underway astatine 2.10 with the Marygate Fillies’ Stakes, thing of a proceedings for the Queen Mary Stakes astatine Royal Ascot adjacent month.